Improved spring bed-bottom



` iitedwtw @stent @mire DAVID A. sCoTT,` or CINCINNATI, oIIIo, AssIeNon"To -ALLEN'C RICII- Amas, CF SAME PLACE.

` vLetters Patent No. 104,504, dated June 21, 1870. s

IMPROVED SPRING- BED-BOTTOM.

' I, DAVID A. SCOTT, of Cincinnati, in the county of I-Iamilton'and theState of Ohio, have invented a eertain Improvement in SpringA13ed-Bottoms,-of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a bed-bottom constructed with lifter-springs,the slats resting upon the stirrup, and held by lugsprojectiiig beyondthc arms thereof, and settling between them when depressed. Y

Figure 1 is a planof a spring bed-bottom embodying my invention. i

Figure` 2 is a longitudinal section of one of the slats and springconnected therewith.

A is the frameof the bed-bottom, to the cross-rails 'J3l of which aresecured the springs O.

"The two arms D of the springs are turned downward at their upper ends,and are united together by thel strrup-bars E, upon which the ends ofthe slats rest.

In order ythat the. slats may be confined to their places upon thesprings, the pins or lugs are driven into the slats, and their endsproject beyond the edges of the slats a little `morethan the thicknessof the arms D f the springs, and in such location, near the ends of theslats, that the projecting ends of the lugs G may be beneath the pointof unionof the arms D and stirrup E of the springs.

The arms D ofthe springs, `being close to the slats f at theirtermination in thestirrnps E, the slats will be confined in their placesupon vthe springs, unless eX- 'I traneous force is used to remove them.This may be necessary when, by long and violent use,'they sag andrequire turning over, or, when cleansed, it will he found to be moreconveniently accomplished when they are detached.

To remove the slat,` press down upon it` until the ends are nearly incontact with the frame A; the stirrups E are caused to approach eachother; the slat is then moved toward one of 'the springs, and, since thearms D of the springs diverge from the stirrup E, the ends of the lug atone end of the slat 'will be liberated from beneath the said arms ofthespring, then the slat is moved in the opposite direction until the lugsat the other end ,are also freed from contact with the arms of thespring.

. Thepslat may be turned over or cleansed, as the case may` be,`andinserted by reversing the operation necessary for its removal.

I claim as my Invention- The reversible slats F, projecting between andbeyoud the arms D of the lifter-springs, and secured to the stirrupthereof by the lugs G, arranged and constructed as described and for thepurposes set forth.

v DAVID A. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

`ILD. PECK,

(l. L. FISHER.

